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Construction of stable SEI film on Si@C high-loading electrodes by dimethoxydimethylsilane electrolyte additives

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Silicon (Si), with its high capacity and abundant resources, presents a huge application prospect for high-energy density lithium ion batteries. Unfortunately, continuous interface reactions induced by huge volumetric changes limit its wide application. Herein, we employ dimethoxydimethylsilane (DMDOS) as an additive to enhance the electrochemical performances in LiNi0.8Co0.15Al0.05O2(NCA)/Si@C pouch cell with high-loading electrodes. DMDOS can be decomposed preferentially and then create a dense layer of Si–O-Si cross-polymerized network on the electrode surface, mitigating continuous interface reactions of the electrolyte during long-term cycling. As a consequence, the pouch battery with 1% DMDOS renders an outstanding capacity retention of 85.5% over 100 cycles, whereas the pouch battery without DMDOS only shows a low capacity retention of 77.7%. Hence, DMDOS is an effective additive candidate for the development of high-energy density lithium ion batteries.

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This work was financially supported by the National Key Research and Development Program of China (no. 2016YFB0100303), the Key Science and Technology Special Project of Henan (project no. 202102210106), and the Zhengzhou Major Science and Technology Projects (project no. 2019CXZX0074).

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    Enyang Wang, Yanxia Liu, Jiayu Dong, Jingbo Liu, Panpan Qin & Fan Liu

  2. Beijing Key Laboratory of Ionic Liquids Clean Process, CAS Key Laboratory of Green Process and Engineering, State Key Laboratory of Multiphase Complex Systems, Institute of Process Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100190, China

    Yanxia Liu & Lan Zhang

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Wang, E., Liu, Y., Dong, J. et al. Construction of stable SEI film on Si@C high-loading electrodes by dimethoxydimethylsilane electrolyte additives. Ionics 28, 1625–1634 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11581-021-04409-y

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